Veep Debate

I give Biden more credit at least he came out fighting - although he needed to be more respectful people don't like it when you act condescending.

The debate was not aimed at the middle. The focus of the campaigns from here on out is to get out the base.

Despite a drumbeat from the right and even independent fact-checkers that President Barack Obama has been unwilling to label as terrorism the attack on a United States diplomatic mission in Libya, the president indicated just a day after the killing of the American ambassador there that the assault was part of a series of "acts of terror" the U.S. has faced.

"No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for," Obama said in a Rose Garden statement on Sept. 12. "Today, we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done."

Notwithstanding Obama's initial statement, Republicans have faulted him for failing to use the word "terrorism" to describe the attack, even when he was asked directly about it during an interview on Monday.

You are wrong about "the middle". The debate was not aimed at the middle. The focus of the campaigns from here on out is to get out the base.

To be in the middle at this point of this contentious debate between two very different views people have to be either stupid or apathetic. The people in the middle are going to vote for some stupid random reason, if they vote at all.

This year there aren't very many people in the middle, which is why you don't see the campaigns focusing on them very much.

The election will be won by the side that gets the most of its supporters riled up enough to get to the polls. The middle doesn't matter (no matter how important it wants to feel).

I didn't see the debate, but it is clear to me after reading the commentary by both sides' talking heads that Biden clearly came out on top. No one is talking about how good Ryan looked. The right is talking about how Biden was "unhinged' and a "bully" (translation: we can't attack what he said so we attack the man and how dare he beat up on a nice woman from Alaska). The left is crowing victory.

I don't think it matters one way or another other than to blunt Romney's momentum from the last debate, but it doesn't blunt it much. If Romney wins the next debate, he could turn the election. Obama has to have at least two draws from here on out.

I didn't see the debate, but it is clear to me after reading the commentary by both sides' talking heads that Biden clearly came out on top. No one is talking about how good Ryan looked. The right is talking about how Biden was "unhinged' and a "bully" (translation: we can't attack what he said so we attack the man and how dare he beat up on a nice woman from Alaska). The left is crowing victory.

I don't think it matters one way or another other than to blunt Romney's momentum from the last debate, but it doesn't blunt it much. If Romney wins the next debate, he could turn the election. Obama has to have at least two draws from here on out.